Gautam Nair

Movies

Looop Lapeta
Sound Designer
When her boyfriend loses a mobster's cash, Savi races against the clock to save the day — if only she can break out of a curious cycle of dead ends.
Milestone
Sound Designer
As soon as veteran driver Ghalib’s truck touches the 500,000 kilometers mark - a record at his company - he is struck by a sudden pain in his back. As Ghalib struggles with this ache, an existential threat begins to overwhelm him when he is asked to train a young new driver.
Nasir
Sound Designer
Follows Nasir, a middle-aged street salesman, who belongs to the Islamic minority and who lives with his mother Fatima, his wife Taj and his cousin Iqbal in a densely populated ghetto. As his day unfolds we find him to be a nimble romantic, marshalling a love of love, song, children, friendship, and even God to rise into something resembling a life well lived. But the increasing communal bigotry has other plans.
Just Like That
Sound Designer
Mrs. Sharma is the wife of a respected, small-time government employee in Allahabad. When her husband dies, she is expected to move in with her son and grandchildren. But the woman wants to live by herself. She stops going to the temple, buys herself things without worrying about the expense, makes friends with a girl half her age and chooses to spend more time with her new friend than with her family. When Mrs. Sharma decides to learn doll-making with a Muslim tailor called Ali, the entire locality, including her own family, slowly turn against her.
Pushkar Puran
Sound Designer
An attempt to engage with the historical, mythical and the contemporary worlds of the city of Pushkar
Even Red Can Be Sad
Sound Designer
This film explores various aspects of litterateur and painter Ram Kumar's personality by structuring the film around his stories and paintings, traveling between fragments of his past, present, fiction and imagery. It strives of etch out the synthesis of word and image in Ram Kumar's creations, presenting it as a portrait of the artist himself. The text used in the film is from various short stories by Ram Kumar.
Chitrashala: House of Paintings
Sound Mixer
When a gallery of paintings becomes emptied of its spectators, the curtains raise within the paintings.
Fly, Bird
Sound Mixer
The giant wheels of the city grind thousands between them. A young boy from a chicken farm and a housekeeping girl in a luxury hotel - each one must give the other strength to try and escape this fate, as nameless chicken continue to feed the city slaughterhouses.
Fly, Bird
Sound Editor
The giant wheels of the city grind thousands between them. A young boy from a chicken farm and a housekeeping girl in a luxury hotel - each one must give the other strength to try and escape this fate, as nameless chicken continue to feed the city slaughterhouses.
Gita Govinda
Sound Designer
The 18th century Pahari miniatures illustrating the verses of 'Gita Govinda' by the poet Jayadeva, are also loving and intimate portraits of the verdant landscape of the Kangra Valley. Nature becomes a primary actor and the director focuses on the alchemy of the 'transformation of nature in art.'